Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes: “With searing images of mob violence at the U.S. Capitol fresh in memory, Joe Biden comes to the presidency as a potential healer of divisions and binder up of wounds. Yet his own prior
Ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Monsignor Owen Campion addresses the challenges that the Church will face by having a Catholic in the White House who will work toward policies that go against Church teaching. He writes: The
OSV Publisher Scott P. Richert writes that while some Catholics might be celebrating seeing one of their own elected to serve as president, the advent of the second Catholic president poses even more challenges than the foreshortened term of the first one.
Publisher Scott Richert asks, “What if it matters very little who actually occupies the Oval Office? … What if the public preoccupation with the presidency is itself part of the problem?” Throughout his years as a voter, Richert has had to answer
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that, while not Catholic, President Andrew Johnson should have a place in Catholic history books. When Catholics in this country needed a friend in high places, Andrew Johnson was there, forthright, unwavering and bold, risking political disadvantage for